apt wants to remove bash
I am having a problem with upgrading. Running apt-get upgrade doesn't
upgrade most of the packages. When I run dist-upgrade it wants to
remove a lot of packages including bash. Obviously, this is a problem.
Usually I use synaptic to do upgrades which results in the same
behaviour.
This has gone on for several days. Is there an easy fix for this? I
think it is related to libc6. Should I risk forcing it (and possibly
not being able to reinstall bash, etc.)?
dpkg -l libc6
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ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20.0 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
sources.lst
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deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main contrib
non-free
# Marillat
deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
# CInelerra
deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/athlonxp/ ./
deb-src http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/sid/ ./
Sample apt-get -u dist-upgrade run:
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pitr:~$ sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
base-files bash deborphan fetchmail fetchmailconf foomatic-bin
foomatic-db
foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-gimp-print foomatic-db-hpijs
foomatic-filters
foomatic-filters-ppds foomatic-gui gnome-desktop-environment
gnome-volume-manager hal hotplug mailx python-foomatic udev
The following packages will be upgraded:
cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client exim4-base exim4-daemon-light ffmpeg gocr
gpm gtimer hdparm hpijs hplip hplip-data kmenc15 libavcodeccvs
libbio2jack0
libc6 libc6-dev libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libexpat1 libexpat1-dev
libgeos2 libgpmg1 libgpmg1-dev libnspr4 libnss3 liborbit0 liborbit2
libpostproc0 libsane libscrollkeeper0 libsmbclient libswfdec0.3
libzvbi-common libzvbi0 locales login mencoder mozilla mozilla-browser
mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mplayer passwd pkg-config samba samba-common
sane-utils scrollkeeper smbclient smbfs swf-player vorbis-tools
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
base-files bash
54 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 20 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 66.5MB of archives.
After unpacking 51.0MB disk space will be freed.
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Shawn D'Alimonte shawnd@mycybernet.net
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